Sect. 7. There is another crime, no less heinous than the former; and yet in their account, it is a necessary duty, and a most excellent service, and that is the destroying of Christ, which by their doctrine and Laws of their Church, they are to do daily in the Mass. To clear this, take notice of these severals: They teach that Christ is really in ⟨p. 216⟩the Mass, not only as he is God, (and so every where) but as he is Man, Soul, and Body, Flesh and Blood, and there not only mystically in signs and representations, or spiritually in virtue and efficacy; but as to the very substance of his body, some say Corporally, others after t•e manner of a Spirit; but all say the true substance of his Flesh and Blood, is as really on the Altar, as his Body was on the Cross, when nailed to it; yea, that it is there visibly, and may be (though it be not ordinarily) seen. 2. They hold that Christ is truly and properly Sacrificed in the Mass, and his Body and Blood there offered, as much as any Bullock or Lamb was Sacrificed under the Law. The Council of Treat (f)declares that the Sacrifice in the Mass, and that offered on the Cross, is the very same for substance, and differs only in the manner of Offering, and denounces a Curse against any that shall say, (g)that it is not a true and proper Sacrifice, or that Christ in these words, do this, did not command the Disciples and Priests after them, to Sacrifice the Body and Blood of Christ. 3. They maintain, that in every true and proper Sacrifice, that which is Sacrificed, is really destroyed. So Bellarmine, to a true Sacrifice, it is required (h)that what is offered to God in Sacrifice, should be plainly destroyed. And if it be a live thing that is offered, that it may be a true and real Sacrifice, it must of necessity be slain and deprived of Life. A true and real Sacrifice, says he, requires the true and real killing of it, since in the killing of it, the essence of the Sacrifice consists. Hence it clearly follows, and it is their own inference, that Christ being truly and properly Sacrificed in the M•se he is there really consumed, killed, or destroyed; he is as really consumed in the Mass, as Incense, when it was burnt for an Oblation: (k)The ⟨p. 217⟩Body of Christ, says the Cardinal, for the honour of God, is laid upon the Table, that it may he consumed.
Sect. 7. There is another crime, no less hainous than the former; and yet in their account, it is a necessary duty, and a most excellent service, and that is the destroying of Christ, which by their doctrine and Laws of their Church, they are to do daily in the Mass. To clear this, take notice of these severals: They teach that Christ is really in ⟨p. 216⟩the Mass, not only as he is God, (and so every where) but as he is Man, Soul, and Body, Flesh and Blood, and there not only mystically in signes and representations, or spiritually in vertue and efficacy; but as to the very substance of his body, some say Corporally, others after t•e manner of a Spirit; but all say the true substance of his Flesh and Blood, is as really on the Altar, as his Body was on the Cross, when nailed to it; yea, that it is there visibly, and may be (though it be not ordinarily) seen. 2. They hold that Christ is truly and properly Sacrificed in the Mass, and his Body and Blood there offered, as much as any Bullock or Lamb was Sacrificed under the Law. The Council of Treat (f)declares that the Sacrifice in the Mass, and that offered on the Cross, is the very same for substance, and differs only in the manner of Offering, and denounces a Curse against any that shall say, (g)that it is not a true and proper Sacrifice, or that Christ in these words, do this, did not command the Disciples and Priests after them, to Sacrifice the Body and Blood of Christ. 3. They maintain, that in every true and proper Sacrifice, that which is Sacrificed, is really destroyed. So Bellarmine, to a true Sacrifice, it is required (h)that what is offered to God in Sacrifice, should be plainly destroyed. And if it be a live thing that is offered, that it may be a true and real Sacrifice, it must of necessity be slain and deprived of Life. A true and real Sacrifice, says he, requires the true and real killing of it, since in the killing of it, the essence of the Sacrifice consists. Hence it clearly follows, and it is their own inference, that Christ being truly and properly Sacrificed in the M•se he is there really consumed, killed, or destroyed; he is as really consumed in the Mass, as Incense, when it was burnt for an Oblation: (k)The ⟨p. 217⟩
- (f)Sess. 6. cap. 2.
- (g)Can. 1. & 2.
- (h)Et omnia omnino, quae in Scriptura dicuntur sacrificia necessario destruenda er•; si viventia per occisi nem, &c. De Miss. lib. 1. c. 2. p. 685. ad verum sacrificium requiritur, ut id quod offertur Deo in sacrificium, plane destruatur, ibid. p. 688. vid. lib. 1. cap. 27. p. 760.
- (k)Christi corpus ad Dei honorem super mensam ponitur ut consumetur.
